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  • Help me choose a controller

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  • Oh cool, glad to know that Returnal takes advantage of it. I don't have any games that take advantage of the haptics right now, but I've been wanting to try one. And I was already wanting to check out Returnal at some point.

  • Help me choose a controller

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  • I have a Sony Dualsense controller and haven't had any problems with it as a game controller. However, I'm always launching games through Steam, or letting Steam run in the background (so that it's handling the controller input remapping). I don't know if that's what you plan on doing; I've never tried it without Steam handling the inputs.

    My one complaint about it is that the trackpad isn't good enough to use as a mouse when you're navigating the desktop. So I ended up switching back to my original Steam controller.

  • Anti-frameworkism: Choosing native web APIs over frameworks

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  • I'm definitely a fan of avoiding huge frameworks.

    One complaint I have about plain old JS and HTML, though, is that you end up writing a lot of HTML components as just strings. Plain strings of text that is supposed to be valid HTML, but you're not going to get any help with formatting, linting, or even just syntax highlighting when a lot of your code is literally just a big string. The example of Web Components in this post even shows that.

    It mentions developer experience vs. user experience as a nod to this, and the "every HTML components is just a big old javascript string" problem is one I always run into early on with my hobby projects, which makes me decide to use a small UI framework pretty quickly. My favorite is Mithril. It's tiny and does basically what you want React to do, without being React. You write these nested Javascript functions that get turned into HTML. So there's no extra loader step, and it plays nicely with Typescript.

  • Video Game Websites in the early 00s

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  • Oh man, I even recognize a few of those! I miss that era of web design.

    I found some old websites myself a few months ago and put some links on my blog. These aren't archive links, they're still up in their original form.

    Pasting a summary below:

    Sonic Team, https://www.sonicteam.com/

    A bunch of websites for Sonic Team's games are still up, dating back to the Sega Saturn. Here's a few highlights:

    The King of Fighters. This fighting game series still has some of the original marketing sites up for its earliertitles.

    • KOF 98 "Unlimited Match". I'm not sure when this was made. This is for the 2008 re-release of KOF 98. The copyright date says 2007 and there's a Wordpress logo for the favicon. However, everything else about the website screams

      <marquee>

      "1998."

      </marquee>

      It's using tables for the layout and font tags for text colors. I'm wondering if there was an existing site for KOF 98, and they gave it an update for 2008 without changing the way it was written.
    • KOF 2000. A great example of how a site would sometimes have completely different layouts for each page.
    • KOF 2002
    • A general information site about SNK's games, last updated in 2009, but looks like it was designed before then.

    Honorable Mention: Team Fortress 2, https://www.teamfortress.com/

    This one is newer, of course, but still has some hallmarks of mid-2000s web design. I point out some things about it in the blog post.

  • Gentoo’s 2025 Report: Financial Health and the Push Away From GitHub

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  • Seeing major projects move away from GitHub is so encouraging, I love it. But hopefully people also see that codeberg can use some donations to be able to handle the new traffic. (Which reminds me, I need to do that...)

  • White Sands National Park, New Mexico

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  • This is fantastic. I love that I noticed the grasses last, even though they're the only thing with some color.

  • My time with Anbernic's RG477V

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  • Thank you! That is good to know.

  • My time with Anbernic's RG477V

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  • I have a couple of questions, one about this device and one for anyone just in general:

    1. For Android games, does this have the actual Google play store? Or do you need to use the Aurora store? And if so, do you use a throwaway account because Google might decide that they aren't OK with that someday?
    2. This is available with 8 GB or 12 GB of memory. I've never played PS2 games on one of these handhelds before -- would 8 GB be fine for that?

  • My time with Anbernic's RG477V

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  • Great review! And wow, this thing looks fantastic. After using a horizontal retro emulator, I wasn't sure if I would ever want a vertical one again. Horizontal just immediately felt so much more comfortable for me. But this one definitely looks tempting. Also, the vertical handheld I have, a Miyoo mini, is really small, so maybe that's part of my ergonomics problem.

  • Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated

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  • It's amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don't see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.

  • enclose.horse

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  • Thanks, I hadn't heard of this one.

    My first attempt got 20. I've refined it to 63. 64 68, I think I got it. That seems to be the highest score anyone else has made.

  • enclose.horse

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  • Well I'm glad I read your comment first since I absolutely would have assumed the same thing, haha.

  • How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?

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  • I haven't been to one that uses cards, but I would prefer tokens or actual coins over the card. The only arcade near me is a bar arcade, and all of the machines take quarters. I love it.

  • Circuits #806 2025-12-29

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  • Self hosted Kanban board with good mobile support

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  • My Camera Collection!

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  • Gorgeous collection! Also, is that a Kane & Lynch comic book?

  • What are your favorite songs about atheism?

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  • Oh nice, I haven't heard this one before. I've been listening to his album "Solved" a lot lately.

  • What are your favorite songs about atheism?

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  • I hadn't heard this one before, that was amazing. :D

  • What are your favorite songs about atheism?

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  • I mean, he did leave that girl, who loves Jesus, and America too. Could be atheist.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Gmail is the best (worst) example of this. They literally have EVERY possible icon for "settings" on the page at once.

    There's a hamburger button. There's a three dots button. There's a NINE DOTS BUTTON. There's a cog. There's a slider icon. And you click your profile picture for "manage your account."